Core Media plug-in identifier

Question

I have created a CMIO (CoreMediaIO) plug-in for OS X that can access media hardware (in my case a virtual camera) using as the basis the Apple's example with SDK. Everything works perfectly but now before releasing I came across the problem of getting the unique media plug-in identifier:

There is not really much the documentation for CoreMedia.framework in general, and I'm curious is there a way to get this unique plug-in identifier in some shared database or something?

Answer 1

So eventually I used TSIs and got the next response from Apple:

As long as you’re properly generating the UUID, nothing else is required to ensure uniqueness. The generation process itself guarantees uniqueness. As for generating the UUID, the command line tool “uuidgen” can take care of that:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/uuidgen.1.html